Cold Hands

[Richard O'connor]

Does anyone else suffer from cold hands and struggle to warm them up? Being from the ever miserable UK, the weather isn’t always the best. In fact, its shit….all day…every day. This winter especially i’ve really struggled to warm up my hands and get them moving again even with warm up routines.

 

[Jen Hapke]

Have you tried arm circling?

 

[Richard O'connor]

i haven’t. i will give it a go though thanks!

 

[Jak Angelescu]

This thread is hilarious due to the fact I use to live in Alaska and visited Finland, so I um, can kind of relate lol!!! To be honest what I use to do was run my hands under hot water in the bathroom sink and stretch them out underneath the water. Also, this may sound kind of odd but consume “heating” foods like cayenne pepper, hot beverages or jalapenos. There’s a chemical called capsaicin in spicy peppers that help dilate the blood vessels and get the blood flowing through the body and can help with cold hands and feet.

 

[Josh Wright]

Being in Texas, one would think I would struggle with this, but my hands are always ice. I just honestly keep them moving and it seems to do the trick.

 

[Richard O'connor]

@jak I feel my point is kinda moo now you at you be lived in Alaska. England is cold but not that cold lol. Thanks for the advice though

 

[Filip Tomiša]

I do the same thing with hot water. Just turn the hot water on and put your hands under it and wait until it starts burning.

 

[idssdi]

Ibusually rub my hands against each other(creates friction/emergy and therefore heat) and warm the up by playing

 

[Sven Barnitzki]

Stretching fingers and doing a warm up by playing chromatic scales downwards and upwards is helping keep them fingers warming up.

 

[Calvin Phillips]

My fingers are CONSTANTLY moving to a beat so honestly they are never cold anymore.
Id say buy a piano or keyboard.. i did have this problem and itd take me 10 minutes to feel comfortable. All i can suggest is keep your fingers busy lol

 

[Noah Berends]

Michigan native here. Cold enough for our state to be shaped like a glove. Anyways, I usually use a Dunlop finger exerciser to warm up my fingers if they’re cold. Or sometimes I’ll go old school and sit on my hand.

 

[Julian Barton]

I like to just kinda play some stuff and if my hands still don’t warm up I will either rub them together or stick them in my back pockets for a hot minute (no pun intended) that usually does the trick.

 

[Daniel Bernard]

I make a coffee and hold the mug in my hands while drinking it xD
I also like stretches (like to do yoga too) before playing. Watch ”Yoga for musicians” by Yoga with Adrienne… Bunch of easy and quick finger, wrist, shoulder and neck stretches. You dont have to to the whole routine just isolate the stretches, that what I did and man the blood flows in my arms (and hands) after 3-4 mins.